Obama Lays Out Case for Israel to Revive Peace Talks — Laying out his case for a future Israel at peace with the Palestinians, President Obama delivered an enthusiastically welcomed speech on Thursday before an audience of youthful Israelis in Jerusalem, assuring them of America's strong support …

Romney campaign chief to lead new GOP research group — (CNN) - Post-mortems written after the 2012 campaign focused on a variety of Republican shortcomings: underwhelming television ads, an outdated voter contact model, and a message that was out-of-step with the changing face of America.

What Needless, Xenophobic Panic Looks Like — While researching another item, I came across a Townhall column written by Michelle Malkin in 2002, a couple years before she published her book, In Defense of Internment: The Case for Racial Profiling in World War II and the War on Terror.

Banks Are Too Big to Fail Say ... Conservatives? — Members of the Federal Reserve don't usually make the rounds at partisan gatherings. But amid the tri-cornered hats and “#StandWithRand” buttons of last week's Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC)—the largest annual gathering …

Cyprus: The Sum of All FUBAR — At this point the Cyprus situation is pretty clear — and clarity does not bring reassurance. In fact, it looks as if Cyprus has managed to combine in one place everything that has gone wrong elsewhere. — 1. Runaway banking.

How the Secret Service Almost Shot Mahmoud Ahmadinejad — The intelligence brief on the apparent accident was three sentences long, and it scared the hell out of White House officials. — One morning in September 2006, during the United Nations General Assembly, President George W. Bush's …

Cuomo Seeks to Ease a Newly Passed Gun Restriction — ALBANY — In the wake of the elementary school massacre in Newtown, Conn., Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York pushed through the State Legislature gun control measures that included not only a tougher assault weapons ban but also a tighter restriction …

Where is today's Jack Kemp? — The important question isn't so much establishment or grass roots as who and where? Mike Lee isn't Christine O'Donnell and Utah isn't Delaware, and that makes all the difference. — Consider Ted Cruz, whose smarts and fearlessness are quickly making him the most dangerous man in the U.S. Senate.

Michele Bachmann: Obamacare Will ‘Literally’ Kill People — As the country prepares to celebrate the third anniversary of health care reform, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) insisted on Thursday that the Affordable Care Act will “kill” vulnerable women and children during a speech on the floor of the House.